If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.

When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff.

a good idea is only good if thereis a well-thought-out plan tomake it a reality.

The moment you learn the lesson, the test will be over.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.